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• When people think of me, I want them to think of a travel show host who's really funny and good at his job, and I think eventually the CP won't even play into it, or at least that's the goal.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Problems

• Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Why
  • Always
  • Environmental

• America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • America
  • Responsibility

• I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Know
  • Dance
  • Independent

• Fantasy isn't something you run out of.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • You
  • Run
  • Fantasy

• It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Silence

• Calm on the bosom of thy God,Fair spirit, rest thee now!

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • God
  • Rest
  • Calm

• My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Health

• The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Sleep
  • Sea
  • Wind

• If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Writing
  • Today

• Kein Drang nach Erkenntniß und Einsicht, um ihrer selbst Willen, belebt sein des Philisters Daseyn, auch keiner nach eigentlich ästhetischen Genüssen, als welcher dem ersteren durchaus verwandt ist. Was dennoch von Genüssen solcher Art etwan Mode, oder Auktorität, ihm aufdringt, wird er als eine Art Zwangsarbeit möglichst kurz abthun.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Art

• Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Life
  • Live
  • Words

• I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.

  

  Emily Procter
  • People
  • Bad

• I am proud to be a woman.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Proud

• One thing that I've noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: the talkers and the watchers.

  

  Elvis Mitchell

• I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

  

  Jimmy Piersall
  • Crazy
  • Bird

• Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? - now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Mistake
  • Courage

• A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Friend

• I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • World
  • Good
  • Character

• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

  

  Christina Rossetti
  • Friend
  • Sister
  • Calm

• I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

  

  Les Dawson
  • School
  • Lost
  • Friend

• Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.

  

  Solon
  • Friend
  • Commend
  • Reprove